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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Wyoming
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. 19-13-102, 19-13-104 (Wyoming Homeland Security Act); 35-4-115(a)(i) (public health emergency); Wyo. Const.
- Issued
- 2020-03-13 Mar. 13, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-13 (immediately) (read as 2020-03-13)
- End
- 2022-03-15 (rescinded by Executive Order 2022-03) (read as 2022-03-15)
- In force
- Mar. 13, 2020 to Mar. 15, 2022
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declaration
- Addressees
- Director of the Office of Homeland Security
- Adjutant General
- Director of the Wyoming Department of Health
- the public
- Functions reached
- EMER predicate for every Wyoming order in the six quarters
- Collection
- Wyoming WY
Operative words
I, Mark Gordon, do hereby declare a state of emergency and a public health emergency, and therefore order and direct the following:... 3. The Director of the Wyoming Department of Health in accordance with but not limited to Wyo. Stat. Ann. 35-1-240, 35-1-227, 35-4-101 to 115; to take all appropriate and necessary actions, and in the Director's judgment any actions necessary to provide aid to those locations where there is a threat or danger to public health, safety and welfare. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately and shall remain in effect until such time it is rescinded.
Enforcement
Predicate for the State Health Officer's orders under W.S. 35-1-240 (enforced under W.S. 35-1-105 and 35-1-106) and for W.S. 35-4-114 immunity and 35-4-115 emergency powers
Notes
Recites the March 11, 2020 presumptive-positive case; directs Homeland Security mobilization, National Guard activation and WDH action. Every statewide public health order recites this declaration as its predicate. Rescinded March 15, 2022 (WDH release, verified_secondary). The govdelivery attachment is an image-only scan; Ex. WY-002 is a text-layer copy of the same instrument.
Retrieval noteText read by OCR (Windows.Media.Ocr) of the Governor's own attachment and confirmed against the FAO Lex text copy (WY-002).